Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice is found in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and within communities from countries in which FGM is common. UNICEF estimated in 2016 that 200 million women living today in 30 countries—27 African countries, Indonesia, Iraqi Kurdistan and Yemen—have undergone the procedures.Typically carried out by a traditional circumciser using a blade, FGM is conducted from days after birth to puberty and beyond. In half of the countries for which national …
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Uncut : A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 5 November 2024 English
Uncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents …
particularly relevant given the ways in which female circumcision is called “female genital mutilation,” thus …
Gender-Based Violence Terminology - Contact Us: vawlearningnework.ca vawln@uwo.ca twitter.com/learntoendabuse facebook.com/TheLearningNetwork
RESOLVE, University of Saskatchewan · 24 March 2022 English
Similar to the experience of racism, homophobia/transphobia and sexism, socially constructed characteristics of disability position people with disabilities as an ‘inferior’ group to non-disabled people.” [1] Learn More: • Issue-Based …
(Sexually Transmitted Infections) and HIV/AIDS, Female Circumcision/ FGM (Female Genital Mutilation), and practices …
The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights : Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global World
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 May 2021 English
Cultural practices have the potential to cause human suffering. The Tension Between Culture and Human Rights critically interrogates the relationship between culture and human rights across Africa and offers strategies …
Books.Tierney, J. (2008). A compromise on female “circumcision. https://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/ … com/2008/03/19/a-compromise-on-female-circumcision/UN. (1948). Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Paris …
A Doctor's Quest : The Struggle for Mother-and-Child Health Around the Globe
DDN: Dundurn Press · 2019 English
A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother-and-child health in the developing world. Recounting medical missions in one-third of the forty-five countries in which she has worked for the past …
staff and students about the dan-gers of female circumcision in each school. He warned that it was against …
FEMINIST ADVOCACY, FAMILY LAW AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN - INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
IDRC: International Development Research Centre · 29 August 2018 English
She is a member of the Committee of Experts of the MESECVI, which oversees the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women …
Cross River State Girl-Child Marriages & Female Circumcision (Prohibition) Law (2000) just as Ogun State … State enacted the Ogun State Female Circumcision & Genital Mutilation (Prohibition) Law (2000). As more …
A Threat to Democracy: Government control over Canadians’ thoughts, beliefs and opinions
JCCF: Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms · 27 September 2017 English
The text of the Motion states: That, in the opinion of the House, the government should: (a) recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear; …
also known as female genital cutting or female circumcision, Five amazing innovations in home building … furtherstatement saying that “male and female circumcision … are religious rites that havebeen practiced … also known as female genital cutting or female circumcision,is a procedure that intentionally alters … important policy goal. Sometimescalled female circumcision orfemale genital cutting, FGM is thecutting … activist Ronak Faraj had published a study on female circumcision inSulaimaniya in 2004,[24] the fact that …
La maltraitance des enfants est inacceptable
desLibris · 21 March 2017 French
« La présente brochure est destinée aux parents ou aux tuteurs. Elle traite de la maltraitance des enfants en milieu familial et répond à des questions sur les lois du …
Avis – La polygamie au regard du droit des femmes (version anglaise
Conseil du statut de la femme · 9 June 2016 English
Avis – La polygamie au regard du droit des femmes (version anglaise)
traditional customs damaging to women (such as female circumcision, underagemarriages, forced marriages, polygamy) … cultural practices (such as prostitution or femalecircumcision). The liberal rhetoric creates a loss of …
Eighteen Stories from Around the World
desLibris · 22 February 2016 English
The designations employed and the presentation of material throughout the publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of IOM concerning the legal status of …
Adapted Summary of a Public Health Ethics Framework Bernheim et al. (2009) - Ethics and the Practice of Public Health
National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy · 22 January 2016 English
Adapted Summary of a Public Health Ethics Framework Bernheim et al. (2009) - Ethics and the Practice of Public Health
public health goals?Ruderman, R. (2013). Female Circumcision: The LEAST INFRINGEMENT Ethics of Harm Reduction …
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